Archive of entries posted on August 2015

Almost 6 years ago I wrote this post about how I thought you should go about executing SQL statements and queries in PowerShell. It included a function which allowed you to pass a hashtable of parameter names and values. This post has been one of the most popular on the site. I submitted a module to …

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while. It’s a simple thing that broke some code from PowerShell 1.0. Yes, I still have some code running in production that was written back before 2.0 came out. And before I go any further let me say that PowerShell has done a remarkable job in …

Looking at some of the solutions to the July scripting games problems (here) I noticed that several of them used abbreviations for parameter names. For instance: I understand that this is a competition of sorts and that part of the challenge is to get a solution with the smallest number of characters, but I realized …